On morality

“I had a friend that said whenever she was doing something bad, she’d hear this little voice in her head… Distant little voice, saying, ‘Oh, come on now. You know this is wrong.’ And then when she started doing good things, that voice went away. It was a relief.”

On responsibility

“My whole life, whenever I encountered any obstacles, I would simply say, ‘I would like to speak to a manager.’ But in our relationship, there was no manager. There was no one who could fix this for me except me.”

On lying

“There’s an old Chinese proverb: ‘Lies are like tigers, they are bad.’ I guess it’s more poetic in Mandarin.”

— Chidi Anagonye, The Good Place, Season 1, The Eternal Shriek

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On love

“If you love someone, set them free. My good friend and yoga pupil, Sting, no last initial, told me that.”

— Tahani Al-Jamil, The Good Place, Season 3, The Ballad of Donkey Doug

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On sacrifice

“Remember the thought experiment where you’re driving a trolley and you can either plough into a group of people or turn and hit one person? I solved it. See, the trolley problem forces you to choose between two versions of letting other people die. The actual solution is very simple: sacrifice yourself.”